Happy Halloween!

This Halloween has been the best that I can remember, due mostly to all the kids at my work. It was so much fun to see them all dressed up yesterday for all of our own Halloween festivities, and the excitement continued today. Though the days were chaotic and exhausting, there were so many special moments in them that made it all so very worth it! My kids dressed up as spiderman (two boys did!), cinderella, a fairie princess, a lion, buzz lightyear, a monster, a witch, a ballerina, a cowboy, a boxer, and a kitty cat; they were all so adorable! And I dressed up as a bumble bee, which they all loved as well!

Tonight was our church's fall festival, and our Sunday School class was in charge of hosting a game in our room. We ended up doing the candy walk, which is similar to the cake walk, only with candy. It was pretty funny because the game was completely rigged to where we'd just try to call out whatever color square a kid was on that hadn't gotten candy yet, etc. A lot of parents could tell what we were doing, and they just grinned. I think there was a pretty good turnout, and we had fun with the kids and with our class.

Here are a couple pics from the night:



Hope you all had a wonderful evening as well!!

Fall Fun

Tonight we had Adam and Jennifer over to carve pumpkins and make some oreo dessert balls. We are going to take the pumpkins to our church's fall festival that we're helping out with this Friday, so we're glad they came out alright!!

Here Adam and Brad are hard at work


Our pumpkin nearly complete and the seeds drying out


Both pumpkins comleted, and yes, we agree that their's turned out better! But, just so you know, they used a template and we free-handed it!




Here are our oreo dessert balls... or whatever you want to call them. It's just one whole package of oreos crushed finely and mixed with a whole package of cream cheese. So delicious and non-nutritious!! :)

Acceptance down... Housing to go...

Just wanted to give a quick update...

Wednesday evening I was accepted into the Masters of Public Health program at MU!! My emphasis is officially "Health Promotion and Disease Prevention." It was such a relief to finally get accepted, and now I'm much more excited about Columbia.

We really only need one more piece to fall into place before we can breathe a sigh of relief, and that's housing. Dee and I found out the hard way on Monday that there really aren't any options available to us for January. Thankfully, though, one pretty amazing option did open up and Brad and I are now frantically trying to get the paperwork together and faxed in today so we can get it before anybody else.

We'll keep you all updated, and hopefully we'll have some good news here within a few days!